Creature Features – Bed Bugs and Halloween

Creature Features – Bed Bugs and Halloween

It seems like this year is just flying by. September is over and now we’re rolling into October. And you know what October means. It means Halloween parties (for kids AND grown-ups), trick-or-treating, and (if you’re anything like me) too much candy and not enough...
Syrian Refugees Face Bedbugs in Canada

Syrian Refugees Face Bedbugs in Canada

They fled barrel bombs and chemical weapon attacks in war-torn Syria, but when they arrived in Canada to start rebuilding their shattered lives, they found themselves in a new battle with an invisible enemy. The problems began soon after a dozen refugee families moved...
Bed Bugs in Hotel: ‘The Itch Was Unbearable’

Bed Bugs in Hotel: ‘The Itch Was Unbearable’

When Lillian Almario checked into a Palm Springs Motel 6 for  Coachella Music and Arts Festival weekend, she didn’t expect to check out with bed bugs. But that’s exactly what she says happened. “The very first night we woke up with bites,”...
Can You Pick a Bedbug Out of a Lineup?

Can You Pick a Bedbug Out of a Lineup?

When asked the same question in an online survey of around 2,000 people visiting hotels for business and leisure, only 35 percent of business travelers and 28 percent of leisure travelers were able to identify the bedbug in the same line up. Around the same percentage...
Bedbug Fact Sheet

Bedbug Fact Sheet

Bed bug fact sheet www.nycbedbuginspectors.com Got questions about bedbugs? Give us a call:  212-299-9186 What are bed bugs? Bed bugs are small, flat insects that feed on the blood of people and animals while they sleep. Mature adults are about the size of an apple...
Can You Pick a Bedbug Out of a Lineup?

Everything you always wanted to know about bedbugs

If some insects could save the world, others do their best to seriously complicate life on earth. Among them the prize perhaps goes to the bed bug, which after decades of absence has returned to our homes, hotels and public facilities to seriously disturb us. These...